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Hi there!
So I'm an amateur who's currently in the Middle East. I've been trying to grow several specimens indoors over the past couple of months, with less than stellar success to date, and need some (oh who am I kidding, a lot of) advice.
Having lost a few early seedlings (elms, juniper & a couple of maples), I've managed to get at least one Dawn Redwood seedling to germinate and grow in the past month. Cautious amount of water, small amount of liquid humus fertilizer recommended locally, grown in a Root Riot block housed in a small propagator, with indirect sunlight and average temps of 70f.
It was growing quite nicely, and based on advice I'd been given and had read, it seemed ready for removal from the propagator, so I took it out and placed it in a separate small pot.
Within a couple of hours, I noticed that some of the leaves appeared as if they were shriveling. This immediately brought to mind a seedling I definitely took out too early and found shriveled up the day later (it didn't last much longer), so I promptly return the Redwood to the propagator. But now, several days later, most of the leaves look worse nonetheless.
Is it essentially game over for this little guy, or am I worrying for nothing and it's fine but for those few leaves? Also, when is it a good time to remove seedlings from such propagators?
Any advice and recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
So I'm an amateur who's currently in the Middle East. I've been trying to grow several specimens indoors over the past couple of months, with less than stellar success to date, and need some (oh who am I kidding, a lot of) advice.
Having lost a few early seedlings (elms, juniper & a couple of maples), I've managed to get at least one Dawn Redwood seedling to germinate and grow in the past month. Cautious amount of water, small amount of liquid humus fertilizer recommended locally, grown in a Root Riot block housed in a small propagator, with indirect sunlight and average temps of 70f.
It was growing quite nicely, and based on advice I'd been given and had read, it seemed ready for removal from the propagator, so I took it out and placed it in a separate small pot.
Within a couple of hours, I noticed that some of the leaves appeared as if they were shriveling. This immediately brought to mind a seedling I definitely took out too early and found shriveled up the day later (it didn't last much longer), so I promptly return the Redwood to the propagator. But now, several days later, most of the leaves look worse nonetheless.
Is it essentially game over for this little guy, or am I worrying for nothing and it's fine but for those few leaves? Also, when is it a good time to remove seedlings from such propagators?
Any advice and recommendations would be greatly appreciated.